stephanie williams there we've lost the sound to geneva apologies for that but it's kind of half well it's completely actually out of the control stephanie williams there talking about the candidates who didn't get close to getting the job but what they've managed to pull out of here speaks to the spirit we're getting from the libyans we've been working with here in geneva and also the spirit we're getting on the ground from libyans we've been working with in sight the country james bays is diplomatic editor following that. news conference coming to us out of geneva james if we get any sound from stephanie williams we will of course go back to if we can in the meantime you and i can have a good kind of chit chat about that interesting she was kind of signaling there to everyone in the room and everyone in libya look we know there were lots and lots of candidates here and we will probably have annoyed more than one or 2 people with the candidates we've gone for. yes and i think that definitely is the case there are people who will have had backers who would have wanted their candidate

led libyan political dialogue forum in geneva part of the country's ongoing peace process. hong kong is imposing sweeping new rules for schools china as children as young as 6 will be taught about the controversial national security law imposed by mainland china students will also learn about tough penalties for antigovernment offenses they'll be taught how to sing china's national anthem and they also learn about the police of the people's liberation army of a serious to the degree of the pollen reports from hong kong. the hong kong university campus this was one of the main campuses or particularly institutions which had pushed the ideals of democracy many of the students here were approached him ocracy activist at one point the umbrella movement of 24000 started here and the and suing pro-democracy and protest movements also was very much supported by students from here there not questions about what happens now from the age of 6 now teachers will be forced to warn students about sedition secession collusion with foreign powers students and teachers will be encouraged to

had worked well in the search cool well i had already been told that the geneva conventions didn't apply to the captured detainees did not did not apply to the couch of detainees by the authorities at the cia and so i don't think i thought about geneva conventions. made became what i was often referred to as a modern day equivalent of a snake oil salesman these 2 psychologists were awarded a $183000000.00 contract to run a program of torture. c n a psychosis it's used to cameron's experiments on sensory deprivation and i haven't along with the code will see a program to create a horrific mix of touchy techniques. all social change has almost entirely taken place in consequence something else. it does not control. we need to protect society from those that can think it's one small thing to kill us the strong protect others from these people. the american psychological association is who were. largest organization of psychologists and probably has the most influence over the community of psychologists around the world. secretly the a.p.a. psychologists but king in the tour to present to ov

but if all was still common geneva. in taiwan an infectious disease specialist had been having sleepless nights. so there was december 31st the last day the end of that year i saw it around $530.00 because i woke up really early that day that happened i couldn't sleep well . young any copies or pick up that message and the post that to our lying group and sounding very. interesting but also worried. there was a post about the outbreak a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia in china. dr louis ciarán is the deputy director of taiwan's center for disease control he says that from the outset there were 3 crucial indications that something very serious was happening in china. the 1st is is the opi show announcement by the or else or sorties to the hospitals authorities were reminding a hospital there is an outbreak on your morning. happening hospitalized patients so be careful about taking those cases and the 2nd message doctors reminding each other while be careful because it could be dangerous to us so be careful that these pa

so, at the age of 26, elizabeth won the admission to a tiny school in geneva new york. on the left is the medical department building. it's not there anymore. it's where it used to be and on the modern campus she graduated at the top of her class in 1849. she was admitted largely by accident. that is a good story may be we will get to later or we will have to read about it in the book. she had no practical training as i mentioned, so off she went to paris to a maternity hospital in this old convent and it was a place for training midwives and at the public hospital it was a place that served poor women often prostitutes, women who had no other place to go to deliver a child. and there she began to sort of make the turn towards an idea of public health which was also just emerging at this time. she began to make the connection between poverty and disease. she also had a catastrophic illness that changed this shape of her career if not the direction of it. she was working with the baby of a woman that had been infected, that passed through the birth canal can often end up

headquarters in geneva to find out if it senior officials could have done more sooner to the world. reality and bloody travel to the mother left. me a drug. that also feature c.n.n. picky and. a. new feature cina. in soma each. a moment in. itself. on january 5th the w.h.o. issued a reassuring press release about a mysterious new disease on the 31st of december 2019 the w.h.o. china country office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in her hand. city a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown or to achieve based on the preliminary information from the chinese investigation team evidence of significant human to human transmission had been reported to advise against the application of any travel or trade restrictions in china. but if all was to common geneva in taiwan an infectious disease specialist had been having sleepless nights. there was december 31st the last day the end of the year i saw it around the 530 because i woke up really early that day just happened i couldn't sleep well. a young lady called these are pick up that message and the post

address the people in geneva there and the rest of the world to find out about the results of these. disbalance as i said a 2nd round ballots. for the libyan interim government's. u.n. led perseus which is now into some of its final stages here has they tried to as james saying 10 years almost to the day after the uprising in libya that is still organizing a few things. positions of prime minister and his general saying a presidency council. being decided today to bring some sort of stability to libya right now and then moving towards the idea of a full as james said one person one ballot vote later in the year baby steps all the way but this is definitely positive signs that we're seeing coming out of geneva still taking their time there so i might just check in with james again james i think you're watching the same things i am so do jump in when if you want but can i just check in what you were saying about the presidency council exactly what does that mean well that they're going to be the governing body now in libya there's going to be a prime ministers part of that presidency c

were using live ammunition on demonstrators here are some of the highlights from that meeting in geneva. to the international community i expressed my concern that any sanctions on the consideration should be carefully targeted against specific individuals who are credibly alleged to have violated people's rights leaders of the school are an appropriate focus of such actions your mind is undergoing complex extremely complex challenges and delegate transition we do not want to stall our new democratic transition in the country we therefore look forward to receiving a better understanding of the prevailing situation in the country and contractor engagement and cooperation from the international community you know i will continue to engage with the united nations towards lasting peace stability and sustainable development to the benefit of the people in the country china is not in favor of holding the special session by the human rights council what happened in myanmar is essentially internal affairs what is required now is for the international community on the basis of respecting myanmar

led libyan political dialogue forum it's happening in geneva part of libya's peace process candidates are running for prime minister and roles in a new presidency council members of the transitional government and its elected will not be allowed to stand in the national elections later this year so let's talk to malik trainer in tripoli about what's going on the talks in geneva a 2nd round of voting going on can you break it down for us a little more. well that's right for the last week we've seen participants in the libyan political dialogue forum hear from candidates on their vision and roadmap that will lead to elections in december 24th later this year since then they've they've had the 1st vote earlier today on a list of candidates and that consists of a 3 member presidential council a head and 2 deputies as well as a prime minister of the 4 lists that were put up for nomination neither none of the lists were able to get the 60 percent majority which means we are now going to see a 2nd round of votes between the 2 highest list that received the most votes now this should be takin

and with the paris and london and geneva. and i just tried to stand in the places they gazed upon feel what it felt like brightness because when i read, i'm happiest when i read with all five senses printed and you can't do that if you all you working with his paper. but the funny thing for me was that i first encountered a the blackwell's. almost anybody i asked about them when i was first encountering them said oh yes, and when the operator had a book about them when i'm six. i didn't have the book. my first encounter is viability because i was in the smith college. in a women's history collection and i was grabbing about about clear contributions to the women's movement in the 19th century. emily popped up as having a female partner. i thought who is this person. and you can't really encounter emily that very quickly knowing where she was brain and then i thought this was a serious story that i never heard of pretty cannot believe i've never heard of its. and let's go. chelsea: we hear a lot about them, elizabeth and emily

the united nations human rights council begins its spring session in geneva on monday.ountries are expected to seek a new resolution calling on sri lanka to hold perpetrators of human rights violations to account and deliverjustice to victims of the civil war that ended in 2009. tens of thousands of people, mostly tamils, were killed in the ethnic conflict. the bbc�*s south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan reports. sri lanka's devastating civil war lasted for nearly three decades. it ended with the defeat of tamil tiger rebels in may 2009. the un and other agencies estimate that more than 40,000 people, mostly tamil civilians, were killed in the conflict. thousands went missing, and the families of those disappeared have held protests demanding answers. following years of international pressure, the government in 2015 agreed to investigate rights abuses and disappearances. but it withdrew from the commitment months after gotabaya rajapaksa, who led the war effort, was elected as president in may 2019. now, britain and other countries want to hold sri lanka accountable. t

attempt to try to tweak junk being part of the paris accord is not about paris just same way that geneva convention was not about the city of geneva right it's sort of that simply where we sign and in agreement it's unbelievable and they have bishops as the electric a federal fleet maybe it is like the paris accord itself it's aspirational what are we obligated ourselves as a nation to do by getting back in on the paris accord one of the bullet points. well there's a lot of different there's a bunch of wrong and as a as a nation as a nation there's a bunch of things we can by the way do individually and collectively so you know some of the big things that you know the president just did you know the. determination of the x.l. pipeline you know sends off a lot of you know bells and whistles for people but the reality is if we're going to be doing all these electric vehicles we're not going to need a pipeline we're going to really need to be really smart thinking forward how our economy is going to be moving forward and it's not simply going to be on fossil fuels of a 100 years ago so we'v

bombardment all amidst a global coronavirus pandemic after allegations of a breach of article for the geneva convention israel has now become making $5000.00 covert vaccines available to palestinian medics some believe the move is to ingratiate itself with joe biden in washington joins me now from ramallah as someone who's worked for peace in the heart of the middle east all her life she is the 1st woman to hold the seat in the highest executive body in palestine but the one strongly thanks so much for coming back on the show i'm going to 1st ask about your own covert what's it like having coronavirus given that israel has been accused of denying medical help to palestinians yes well thank you for it and that the man she inspired to be with you again. certainly i mean it's not that it doesn't experience going through. 19 now. with me it took some. 4 or 5 weeks but it was in that city you know relaxed and they certainly. decided to show that was what did i want that system this is a sponsor that it was to provide for the end and they were being a good people under occupation according to the

led libyan political dialogue form close to geneva means debate has been chosen as interim prime minister until the elections in december the decision was announced by the u.n. envoy stephanie williams. i am pleased to witness this historic moment. the into. the importance of the decision that you have taken here today will grow with the passage of time. in the collective memory of the libyan people. this process your process has come a long way from when we 1st convened you virtually in october of last year. diplomatic editor james bays is at the u.n. headquarters building in new york he says the new interim government can only succeed if all libyans accept its authority. there have been so many obstacles in the way and so many fall storms for libya it's worth remembering that they tried something like this 5 years ago the skier at agreement named after a town where it was signed in morocco was supposed to create an interior government and then elections in 2 years that never happened the thing never never never never really worked no one took the new government seriously and the existin

we understood the geneva conventions to mean that absolutely you know you knew you couldn't you couldn't harm anybody in your care that your primary responsibility was there will be. rather than putting you in distress but then we were confused and then of you know of course we got these memos from the justice department and from the pentagon. authorizing the use of much more harsh techniques. we started docking those techniques when i was stationed in mosul among them were stress positions sleep deprivation. inducing hypothermia. to stay and in any way we could put them in in distress using dogs this is this is the so-called slippery slope so that they take the gloves off policy allowed american interrogators from going from a certain list of techniques that were let's say allowed and even those were already torture to doing extreme things rape and sodomy and you know the most extreme forms of physical and psychological point tally. you can just torture somebody on a whim without knowing how to do it and the reality of course is that torture like any physical skill right requires traini

foreign powers to their advantage of perpetuating the chaos in libya however earlier this month the geneva un brokered compromise saw the political rivals agree to form an interim government which includes representation from both sides by the. power great libyan people her victory today goes beyond the issue of a standalone victory to something greater than that it has it represents a symbol of the victory of national unity reunification peace building can achieve the desired democracy although many see the accord as a breakthrough militia groups sometimes backed by sympathetic politicians continue to plague the nation this has led to some leaders being skeptical. about just how unified the government is here is fact. the interior minister for libya's un backed government a month before the agreement was signed but this is the biggest problem for me it's not the militias which are weak and easily broken apart but the problem is that some of the parts institutions of the state provide support to the members of these militias on sunday but as motorcade came under heavy fire on a highway on

we're seeing gender wage gap right now we have the human rights council session that's ongoing in geneva and several heads of states prime ministers vice ministers have been speaking and if you look at the list and you try to identify how many and it's how many in this there are as opposed to mr it's shocking and this is across the world we're not just talking about mobile south or north it really is a global issue for vanish on the sunday that the deputy spokesperson at the united nations human rights of a speaking to us from geneva great to get your thoughts thanks for being with us reading thank you. well now the 2020 lympics committee has set up a new gender equality team after its last president resigned over sexist comments sure amaury quit 2 weeks ago if suggesting women on the committee shouldn't talk too much as replacement hashimoto has pledged to boost the proportion of women on the board to 40 percent she says gender equality and coronavirus measures are a top priority. while still ahead here on al-jazeera long delays and late mail how donald trump era cuts of eroded trust in

guards there, better healthcare than the guards there in many cases because of contortions of the geneva convention that we can get into it. it probably felt on the ground there what we're supposed to do because we give the best healthcare in the wefrld to the terrorists. it lacks all common sense and insane but bureaucracy and operating procedures lack common sefnlts because we've lost our way in guantanamo somebody thought it was a good idea. >> harris: all right. two trains here i want to go down. two tracks. one from jennifer's reporting the pentagon saying there was a miscommunication. it is hard for me to imagine our defense highest officials being the ones who miscommunicated. it might have been misunderstood. i don't know. what does the accountability look like when you hear the word miscommunicated? >> it means somebody got ahead of themselves and they have a p.r. problem on their hands so they are reversing a policy which had its own momentum. the problem from the beginning was these were terrorists who didn't fight by the rules of war targeting civilians. as a result they were

. >> geneva was an incredible break through. on the policy but also the personal relationship.here was a chemistry between two of them that began that day. >> everything happens the way nancy reagan had planned it. it was a great summit. she had her finger prints all over it. >> the bond forged in geneva effectively ends the cold war. just the legacy nancy was after. but this diplomatic triumph is about to be eclipsed by a major scandal. ♪ ♪ celebrate the moment with ferrero rocher. smooth chocolate. crunchy hazelnut. lovingly layered and wrapped in gold. my husband and i have never eaten healthier. shingles doesn't care. i logged 10,000 steps today. shingles doesn't care. i get as much fresh air as possible. good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but no matter how healthy you feel your immune system declines as you age, increasing your risk for getting shingles. so what can protect you? shingrix protects. for the first time ever, you can protect yourself from shingles with a vaccine proven to be over 90% effective

health organization says much needed scenes are on route to guinea the stop pilots being flown in from geneva and the u.s. 5 people have died from the virus and 10 others have symptoms health authorities in giddy trying to track down anybody who may have had contact with the infected. for a president a man or micron is joining a whole regional leaders summit by video link speaking right now the presidents of the g 5 nations in mali mauritania and chad a meeting is armed groups have increased their attacks france has deployed thousands of soldiers back michael troops is preparing to reduce its presence chad says it will send $1200.00 soldiers to the volatile border areas. dozens of the spanish police have stormed the university and have arrested a rap artist who barricaded himself in to avoid prison cell it was sentenced to 9 months in jail for insulting the monarchy and glorifying its so-called terrorism. today with headlines more news here on al-jazeera after the big picture by fire. yes. and i want also prosperous what was no black wall street were involved again so whites read it's true gr

in geneva, switzerland. the ceo of cyber peace institute.nd in arlington, virginia, the ceo of skype. welcome to the program. on the one hand, america is the world's most advanced cyber superpower, but is also the most targeted. how to the u.s. become as vulnerable as it has become? >> the expression, is the reference to the glasshouse. it's no surprise that the number one economy in the world, with modern business predicated on computers, with how active we are in foreign policy, that that would make us vulnerable. anchor: let me ask you, from your vantage point is u.s. one of the countries that is most vulnerable to cyber attacks, and what is the impact on that? >> thank you for having us. the most vulnerable is a complex notion. as long as everyone agrees there is a business model where private companies can be the ones deciding intrusion tools, attack tools, at the end of the day everyone is vulnerable. anchor: in december, it was revealed the u.s. was hit by a hacking operation that was blamed on russia, and described as the worst in am

organization says much needed ebola vaccines are on routes a guinea the stockpile is being flown in from geneva in the u.s. 5 people have died from the virus and 10 others. those are the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up after witness. teaching you to see street lights on the channel. plus thousands of our programs will be with documentaries. to. subscribe to you chief. was. asked i. have. never had a duty to have him do i do. think it. would be. dependent on a child by. my adult dogs. who are going to go to going to town on it i'm going to do him as an eye. on what i am it does not run without a fight even though it was as it was and not as most. shops would do pride in it on one's own mum with a love. of a family i want a man of any campaign you know that i know i look at what i want to look at really got up a lot i'd be sitting there waiting on on a hard look what i'm on doing what i'm getting a little out on i hope santa does i don't sort of relate to you that i'm not hostile. or that i've to obama. and. i don't. good seems like most of us don't know how to use in nicky campbell t

intervention by recasting it into voluntary repatriation to the geneva convention, refugee convention of 1951 and how or if there are direct connections to later repatriation regimes on a global level that's based on voluntary repatriation. >> thank you so much. so the somewhat surprising thing when you kind of go a little bill further into, for example, something like the red cross archives with the discussion around the 1949 geneva conventions and there was a whole discussion, absolutely, about repatriation of p.o.w.s and soldiers post-45, and the u.s. delegate and also the soviet delegate both voted to not allow voluntary repatriation so that mandatory repatriation had to be the case. and for me with this -- with the korean war case, the reason why it gets a little difficult to kind of peel back the layers is that the whole issue about voluntariness, right, this individual choice ends up being a cover, right, for what's actually happening on the ground, which is that the 38th parallel is not operating as some kind of discreet boundary between two separate states and two separate pe

i am pleased to announce plans to connect more rural counties with access to geneva and fayette counties and others are under development. roads are the arteries of commerce. these are just a few of the minute we will use to open doors of opportunity -- of the many we will use to open doors of opportunity. we cannot have roads without state troopers. in 2020 the law enforcement agency was able to train and graduate 120 new troopers. they added personnel to our waterways and coast. i would be remiss in not acknowledging the challenges our men and women in blue face every day. and we thank them for their service and sacrifice. we can never say thank you enough. one of the most critical issues facing our state, is the dire condition of our prisons. it is no secret that the department of corrections is facing -- that are the result of decades of neglect. resolving these requires multifaceted strategy and immediate action. the cornerstone of our efforts is the alabama prison program. a program to replace the prison infrastructure with safe, new, sustainable men's prisons. i've signed a lease

between mobile and tuscaloosa i'm also pleased to announce plans to connect to more rural counties with geneva and fayette county's and i rose to the owners of the alabama commerce this is just a few of the many one - - of the many we will use for all of our people. we all know we cannot have safe roads without safe state troopers patrolling them. the law enforcement agency had us recruit and train and graduate 123 new students also adding personnel to the gulf coast i would be remiss in not acknowledging that challenges the men and women in blue face everyday for the sacrifice but we can never say thank you enough. one of the most critical issues facing our state is the dire condition of our prisons. it's no secret the department of corrections is facing those challenges that result of decades of neglect resulting these have a strategy of immediate action and the cornerstone of the alabama prison program a bold undertaking with the crumbling infrastructure with sustainable men's prisons.se i signed a lease on the first two of these to be located in the counties and i'm pleased to say we will

we understood the geneva conventions to mean that absolutely you know you knew you couldn't you couldn't harm anybody in your care that your primary responsibility was there will be. rather than putting you in distress but then we were confused and then of you know of course we got these memos from the justice department and from the pentagon. authorizing the use of much more harsh techniques. we started docking those techniques when i was stationed in mosul among them were stress positions sleep deprivation. inducing hypothermia. to stay and in any way we could put them in in distress using dogs. this is this is a small so-called slippery slope so take the gloves off policy allowed american interrogators from going from a certain list of techniques that were let's say allowed and even those who are already torture to doing extreme things rape and sodomy and you know the most extreme forms of physical and psychological point tally. you can just torture somebody on a whim without knowing how to do it and the reality of course is that torture like any physical skill right requires training

as much as the geneva convention prohibits torture, but ours is not torture, but it's... it's...e force? polite force. not everybody in the industry chairs charlie 0ne�*s opinion on using polite force during investigations. there is no such thing as polite force — it is simply force. and it is wrong to use force. so somebody from jane's team says that they use polite force sometimes, what could that mean? the question we have to ask here, very specifically: who gave them that authority to use polite force? there is no—one in private security — under any act, regulation, or law, in kenya — who has been given permission to use polite force. jane claims that her team only uses such methods on criminals, and never harass people. throughout our time together, her looming court case seemed to hang over her. but there's one place that jane can go where she doesn't feel hunted. her home village in kirinyaga county. this is her sanctuary. she is welcomed like a queen. chanting and singing. people here love jane so much. so i'm from the same sort of culture and tribe as jane, the kikuyu co

impacts of the global pandemic are dominating the 1st un human rights council session of the year in geneva un chief antonio terrace warned about every scene of racial discrimination intolerance or in the health crisis concerns about china's treatment of the muslim wake or same gender inequality will also be discussed those are the headlines on our diary navigator will be with you on the al-jazeera news hour in under 30 minutes right after women make change. on counting because the prosperous president we drilled into jokes now well you've got a map putin is at a time when the rest of russia isn't plus the rise of mean stocks where there's plenty of money to be made and almost none of it is about the core business. counting the costs. and i'm not. the only thing. let me show you something this is a $1.25 of where i live it will buy you a very small cup of coffee millions of people around the world exist on less than this amount a day of the numbers have gone down but there's still a lot of work to be done at a time when the world is looking at how to reduce extreme poverty the spotlight has

as much as the geneva convention prohibits torture, but ours is not torture, but it's... it's...e force? polite force. not everybody in the industry shares charlie 0ne�*s opinion on using polite force during investigations. there is no such thing as polite force — it is simply force. and it is wrong to use force. so somebody from jane's team says that they use polite force sometimes, what could that mean? the question we have to ask here, very specifically: who gave them that authority to use polite force? there is no—one in private security — under any act, regulation, or law, in kenya — who has been given permission to use polite force. jane claims that her team only uses such methods on criminals, and never harass people. throughout our time together, her looming court case seemed to hang over her. but there's one place that jane can go where she doesn't feel hunted. her home village in kirinyaga county. this is her sanctuary. she is welcomed like a queen. chanting and singing. people here love jane so much. so i'm from the same sort of culture and tribe as jane, the kikuyu co

have maria, the covid-19 technical lead of the who health emergency program and is joining us from geneva along with her colleagues oliver morgan. she has really devoted her life and career to level public health and has worked in several different roles with who over the years and also has worked at the imperial college and is a u.s. citizen and i don't know your spending enough time here working in the u.s. or with u.s. institutions but we will welcome you back at any time but she is just a distinguished and accomplished epidemiologist, public health specialist who i know will help us shed light on the issue of the day. finally, lloyd pays, executive director of the global health council and she has also been a long-standing leader in global public health and has devoted her career to working not just on programs and policies but also on the ground in ten countries are more leading health programs and mobilizing advocates before joining the global health council as president and executive director. she had important leadership position in global policy and strategic partnerships at liz

officials in geneva pushed back against suggestions that china is being less than forthcoming about howhe pandemic started. >> excellent facilities, very informative. >> in wuhan tuesday, the briefest of updates from the world health organization's covid investigation team, followin their visit to the hubei province center for animal disease control and prevention. w.h.o. investigators kept far from the press as their chinese minders keep tight control over access to information. monday saw the u.s. secretary of state once again criticize beijing for a lack of transparency over the origins of the pandemic. >> there's no doubt that especially when covid-19 first hit but even today china is falling far short of the mark. mark: the w.h.o. itself has faced no shortage of criticism over its handling of the crisis. its current investigation was delayed for months amid negotiations with beijing. with public skepticism sparking visible exasperation among top officials. >> who is responsible here and who is acting responsibly? to say you won't accept a report before it's written? if you think yo

joins us from geneva. to the refugee collective is the size of a country in its own right is now how can we ensure that they're included in nations vaccination strategies. well that's that's really the key element is actually ensuring that when national vaccination plans are happening that refugees are not being excluded from those plans but they're included so that's been a very strong advocacy call that we've been making our national governments to really say look we understand that this is still a work in progress but as the plans are being rolled out we need to make sure that refugees are not excluded from those plans it's a lifesaving intervention so it's about ensuring that refugees also have you know their access to their fundamental health rights and are protected on par with citizens and at the same time it's in the interest of the countries themselves to make sure that there is no one on their territory that is on it unprotected and exposed to the virus think it's all very well making the advocac

government they've elected 4 leaders on the final day of the un led libyan political dialogue forum near geneva. has been chosen as interim prime minister until the elections in december the decision was announced by the u.n. envoy stephanie williams i am pleased to witness this historic moment. the in. the importance of the decision that you have taken here today will grow with the half time. in the collective memory of the libyan people. this process you are proud has come a long way from when we 1st convened you virtually in october of last year. ok we'll cross to train in tripoli in a moment 1st to our diplomatic editor james bays who's been following the u.n. back to vote from there james it's quite complex it's quite dense unpack it for us what does it really mean for the country. it is an optimistic moment libya has a new temporary government agreed by what the u.n. would say was a representative group of libyans brought together yes by the un handpicked by the u.n. but they voted they came up with a slate of candidates for people who will be the presidency council or a slate that come f